About this website
Archive95 is an independent web archive with the goal of preserving early web content that predates or has otherwise gone under the radar of more mainstream web archives. This is primarily achieved through a bygone genre of CD-ROMs that provided offline approximations of the internet for those who weren't yet connected, and now serve as valuable time capsules of what the web once was.
Sources
The following sources are represented for a total of 133,232 files:
- Silicon Surf CD (Silicon Graphics, 01/1995) - 5,016 files
- The Risc Disc Volume 2 (Uniqueway, ~04/1995) - 3,023 files
- World Wide Web Directory (Jamsa Press, ~04/1995) - 7,992 files
- Einblicke ins Internet (Carl Hanser Verlag, ~06/1995) - 27,380 files
- HotWired Trade Show Demo (HotWired, 11/1995) - 1,440 files
- Chip Special: Fun im Internet (Chip, ~11/1995) - 2,019 files
- Chip Special: Spiele im Internet (Chip, 02/1996) - 1,208 files
- PC Press Internet CD (PC Press, 03/1996) - 27,131 files
- NetControl Archived Pages (1996) (NetControl, ~1996) - 21,684 files
- Amiga Plus Extra No. 5 (Amiga Plus, 08/1997) - 12,879 files
- Internet on a CD (Packard Bell, 07/1998) - 11,522 files
- NetControl Archived Pages (1998) (NetControl, ~1998) - 11,938 files
See this page for more information about Archive95's sources.
Contributing
This website's source code is available on GitHub here. I welcome any questions, suggestions, or pull requests.
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